### DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
February 22, 1919

Considering

1) that the Menshevik newspaper "Always Forward" in the issue of February 20, 1919, in the article "Stop the Civil War" has finally demonstrated its counter-revolutionary direction;

2) that the slogan "down with the civil war," now directly raised by this newspaper at such a time when the troops of landowners and capitalists, led by Kolchak, occupy not only Siberia but also Perm, is equivalent to support for Kolchak and an obstacle to the workers and peasants of Russia bringing to victory the war with Kolchak;

3) that thus the Mensheviks, in the resolution of their party meeting condemning the vast majority of Mensheviks who have carried out an alliance with the propertied classes, i.e., with landowners and capitalists in Siberia, in Arkhangelsk, on the Volga, in Georgia and in the South, are now in practice conducting this same policy, hypocritically disavowing it in words;

4) that those Mensheviks who, not being hypocritical friends of landowners and capitalists, display again spineless wavering, leading them to serve Kolchak;

5) that Soviet authority, at the moment of the final, decisive, and most acute armed struggle against the troops of landowners and capitalists cannot tolerate in its midst people unwilling to bear the heavy privations together with the workers and peasants fighting for a just cause;

6) that the aspirations of such people are repeatedly directed toward Kolchak's democracy, where the bourgeoisie and its hangers-on live so well,—

The Central Executive Committee resolves

a) to close the newspaper "Always Forward" until such time as the Mensheviks prove by their deeds their determination to consistently break with Kolchak and firmly stand for the defense and support of Soviet authority;

b) to take all preparatory measures so that Mensheviks obstructing the victory of workers and peasants over Kolchak may be deported to the territories of Kolchak's democracy.